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06/18/2015, Apple and Samsung have fought a long and very costly legal battle but it was the Korean company that ended up being slapped with a ruling to uphold damages awarded to Apple. Samsung has now petitioned the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear...

05/28/2015, Inventors are encouraged to patent their inventions so that their creations and technologies can not be used by anyone else without their permission. There’s also the school of thought which believes that patents get in the way of innovation since...

04/27/2015, The war of patents just got more intense with Microsoft losing the first round in a battle against InterDigital Inc (ITC case #613) at the International Trade Commission or ITC. United States International judge on Monday found Microsoft guilty under the...

03/31/2015, Facial recognition is not exactly a new technology for many of us, It has been there since a while, especially for the Android users. Unfortunately, until now, iOS users have not been able to enjoy this feature (except for the jail-break hacks for iOS...

01/06/2015, The auto industry may be slowly coming to grips with the idea that they need to be more open for the future of this industry. Tesla, which is a relatively new car company that only makes electric vehicles, opened up its patents last year and said...

08/10/2014, Even though Apple and Samsung have agreed to drop all patent related litigation outside the U.S. their battles continue on Apple’s home turf. Both companies have shown no intention of backing down in this country even though there have been...

06/12/2014, Patents are often described as tools used to by inventors to ensure that the technology they have developed isn’t used by anyone without permission or consent. Some criticize them for stifling innovation since big companies and corporations can...

06/01/2014, Building a smartphone is no easy task, especially when you consider all the technology inside of it. Safe to say you guys probably know that the technology used in smartphones aren’t 100% the OEMs, right? Chances are certain components are based on...

05/18/2014, For those unfamiliar with FRAND terms, it’s basically where companies agree to license patents out to one another under Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory terms (FRAND). Not all patents are covered under FRAND, but rather patents that are...

05/06/2014, Samsung and Apple’s legal battles are notorious for dragging on. Both companies only recently got done with their first patent trial that started a few years back. In March they were at it again, the start of a new patent trial in which Apple claims...

04/22/2014, We know that texting while driving is bad and should be avoided at all costs. There are countless reports about the dangers of tapping away on your smartphone behind the wheel that it really shouldn’t be necessary to hammer this point home every...

04/13/2014, The second Apple vs Samsung trial is well underway. In its defence the first witness Samsung called was Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google vice president of Android. The Korean juggernaut argues that many of the features that Apple alleges them of copying were...

02/18/2014, If you look at all the far fetched rumors, going as far back as two years, most will predict that Apple is either launching a full fledged HDTV set or launching a smartwatch in the very near future. Both products haven’t materialized as yet, and...

02/13/2014, The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today published an Apple patent application that describes a method which uses automated “disposable” email addresses to curb spam. According to the patent titled “Disposable email address generation...